Music and history often coincide with each other in a cause-and-effect relationship. Whether it be that music incites something in history or the other way around, the two are inseparable and heavily ...
Like the movement to unionize industrial workers in the 1930s and the African American civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, the farmworkers’ movement was a singing movement. It consciously ...
Whether it was a meeting, a march or a protest, during the Civil Rights Movement, there was always music. Negro spirituals and gospel songs were a common part of life for African American activists.
Scene from Complex Movements’ Beware of the Dandelions. Courtesy photo. Inside an old car mechanic shop in northeast Detroit sits a 400-square-foot polyhedron dome. It’s the skeleton of “the pod,” the ...